Extended Abstract: This paper aims at giving an overview of the ethical issues of the brain emulation approach, and analyse how they should affect responsible policy for developing the field.

There are four domains of ethical issues: - Work aiming at developing the technology and emulating animal systems. - The weakening of the unitary nature of death - Emulations of human individuals or humanlike minds. -The existential risks posed (or reduced) by emulation technology.

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The Winter Intelligence Conference, set in Oxford during Alan Turing's centenary year, combines two subconferences:
AGI-12, the 5th conference on Artificial General Intelligence on the 8th and 9th of December 2012 (with workshops to follow on the 10th and 11th).
AGI Impacts conference which analyses the issues and risks surrounding the creation of such machines (run by the Future of Humanity Institute and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impact of Future Technology) on the 10th and 11th of December 2012.